Deontay Wilder demands staggering £80M to fight Anthony Joshua

[champion4ever]

Exactly. If welterweights can split $300m’s then these guys can get close to $100m’s each. Plus it really is starting to build momentum. Hope it happens soon.

Thanks, I second that also.

[Eff Pandas]

Regardless of whats been said or not, the basic move of negotiations is ask for more & agree to less or start off low & agree to pay more. Negotiations are about finding the middle or the goldilocks pain point that both sides feel as evenly as possible ideally.

You don't go into a car dealership price discussion saying what you are legit willing to take for the car or what you are legit willing to pay for the car. Fight price discussions are no different. Idk why some people act like it is.

Nor is there some "value evaluation" calculator you can just plug in your TV ratings, PPV buys, IG & twitter follower numbers into that spits out your true value. You are worth what you can get by any means necessary.

Thats not what people wanna hear or talk about, but thats the realistic angle with this value talk.

[PotentialToast]

The problem is the fight does not generate that amount of cash. DAZN were prepared to take a loss to build subscriptions. So Wilder and Joshua will only get what DAZN are prepared to pay.

[Real King Kong]

the proof's in the pudding...the offers to wilder keep increasing, although the dazn offer shouldn't be lumped in with what hearn was offering before. not sure how much hearn had to do with it. dazn seems content in throwing huge money around to attract fighters to their platform...I don't know if those investments will continue once it's determined whether dazn takes will sink or swim in the US market.

[Boksfan]

Wildher really is a ducking COWARD.

[techliam]

I hate to admit it but he is not wrong. Just as long as both him and Joshua keep winning and the more the fight marinates, it's going to be worth a lot more than that. Just look at the Mayweather/Pacquiao bout for example.

Wilder needs to start looking like a viable challenge for Joshua if it’s going to go that way

He was almost knocked out by Ortiz, and lost to Fury in nearly everyone’s eyes.

I would be more inclined to follow this reasoning had Wilder been on a tear up of the division, akin to Joshua, but he hasn’t.

[REDEEMER]

Honestly wouldn't put to much thought into this ,What will Wilder demand without a belt come May 19th.

[BM dnobagaV]

Wilder is kind of old... 33 already.
Keeps in good health & power never dies, but still. Getting up there.

This fight will easily make numbers.... give Wilder his 60m+30%ppv or whatever and let's ho

[champion4ever]

Wilder needs to start looking like a viable challenge for Joshua if it’s going to go that way

He was almost knocked out by Ortiz, and lost to Fury in nearly everyone’s eyes.

I would be more inclined to follow this reasoning had Wilder been on a tear up of the division, akin to Joshua, but he hasn’t.

It's because Wilder has been challenging the much the stiffer challengers; Back to back. First against Luis Ortiz and then against Tyson Fury. These were two avoided and undefeated heavyweight fighters that no one wanted to fight. While Joshua, on the other hand, was too busy defending his titles in the U.K. Fighting against one Euro bum after the other.

[redmish]

It's clear that Wilder is treating any fight with AJ as his retirement purse and that's fair enough I suppose. I honestly believe that Wilder will get beat by an average fighter sooner or later and when that happens he will regret it.